Unapologetic Rep. Wilson Addresses the House

Source: WP

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), under fire since his shout of "You lie!" at President Obama during last week's presidential address to Congress, took to the House floor Monday afternoon but did not offer the public apology that Democratic leaders have been demanding to avert a vote to reprimand the lawmaker later this week.

Instead, Wilson, who has been hailed as a hero by conservative activists -- and whose supporters have filled his campaign coffers with nearly $1 million in less than a week -- gave a short summary of the town-hall meetings he held on the proposed health-care legislation during the August recess.

"During my 25 years of serving the public in the state senate and Congress, I have not seen such passionate events full of patriots, 95 percent of whom support health-insurance reform but not a government takeover," Wilson said during the daily "one-minute" speeches lawmakers are allowed to give at the start of each day's session.

The quick speech delivered to a near-empty chamber were Wilson's his first remarks on the House floor since interrupting Obama's speech with shouts of "You lie!" and "Not true!" He ended with a verbal salute to the military troops serving in Afghanistan.

Wilson's remarks will do little to appease Democratic leaders, particularly House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who has led the push to reprimand Wilson for a breach of conduct if he refuses to offer a public apology from the well of the House chamber.

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/09/unapologetic_rep_wilson_addres.html

are people who agree with me.

who desperately wish it was still 1950 so they could lynch black people and get the smirking, tobacco-chomping fatass sheriff to let them off the hook.

And you have made them your own. Enjoy being hated by the entire rest of the country.

as soon as he opens his mouth we should scream "you lie" at him.

and bigots to boot.

Oh wait, I forgot that we're talking about Democrats forcing "discipline" on a Republican. My dog, what was I thinking?!!

Deport him.

Their insincerity shows through.

some fat cat types?

is taking care of their stooge in the House.

Someone please tell me why this is even a news story.

...with a couple of needlenosed pliers and the coarsest file available.

Then take away his socialist health care when he seeks assistance.

Seriously, Wilson should've started his speech with "my apologies to Pres. Obama" or something like that. Instead he continues being a liar. When he loses his seat to Democratic candidate Rob Miller, Wilson will learn his lesson.

:puke: I hate that POS

They certainly are not patriots. There are many other words to call them, but patriots is far off the mark.

Lying, racist piece of shit.

LETS SHOW THE JERK WE CARE ABOUT OUR COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE IN IT! LETS SHOW THE IDJATS THAT MADE THE VIDEO KNOWING HIS VOTING RECORD THEY ARE GOING TO BE EXPOSED!
WELL THIS MORNING I POSTED A THREAD ON THE INFAMOUS "joe wilson" an elected offical WHO SHOWED HIS ELECTORATE JUST HOW IGNORANT HE IS! IF ALL GOES WELL HE WILL BE REPLACED IN THE NEXT ELECTION ! FOR EVEN THE MOST UMINFORMED VOTER WILL KNOW HE VOTED TO GIVE ILLEGAL ALIENS HEALTH CARE!!!
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Well, frumps, in a kinder, gentler (less informed) time Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson might have gotten away with a sharp rebuke for bad manners but would still be able to ride his “high horse” into the sunset. BUT – as happens so often in this crazy little 21st century, especially to the GOP – there are “vigilante fact checkers” out there, who are only too happy to call you out if you turn out to be an opportunistic hypocrite.

And so it is that we learned, yesterday, that Joe Wilson, who was so righteously enflamed over the notion that illegal immigrants might benefit from the current healthcare reform bill, broke with the rules of Congressional decorum and protocol and yelled out that the President was a liar. Well, as we used to say in the old neighborhood “takes one to know one.”

Here’s the skinny on that from OpenCongress.org:

On Wednesday night, Rep. Joe Wilson , shouted “You lie!” at President Obama when he said that the healthcare bill would not cover illegal immigrants. “The supporters of the government takeover of healthcare and liberals who want to give healthcare to illegals are using my opposition as an excuse to distract from the critical questions being raised about this poorly conceived plan,” Wilson said the next day in a campaign fundraising video.

However, in 2003, Wilson voted to provide federal funds for illegal immigrants’ healthcare. The vote came on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), which contained Sec. 1011 authorizing $250,000 annually between 2003 and 2008 for government reimbursements to hospitals who provide treatment for uninsured illegal immigrants. The program has been extended through 2009 and there is currently a bipartisan bill in Congress to make it permanent.

It’s highly unlikely that Rep. Wilson merely forgot about the MMA or that, over time, he lost his original soft-heartedness for illegal immigrants. This particular bill had one of the most epically contentious and scandalous histories in recent legislative memory.

did you get that last paragraph? the most scandalous contentious legislation recent history! do ya think their was some lobbyists involved?
LETS MAKE SURE THIS GUY LOSES HIS NEXT ELECTION! ALONG WITH THOSE WHO PUSHED HIS VIDEO!